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"Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes."
"You've got to be stupid to heckle me - I am very equipped to win."
"To win the secret of a weed's plain heart."
"Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air."
"If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!"
"Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power."
"One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more."
"Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning."
"God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were."
"As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it-it is like hitting a child."
"It's horrible. We had an eight-game win streak going. We were all high and happy and everything is good. It's kind of a reality check. We have to get back and start working again. ... We just didn't bring it tonight."
"You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is."
"We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win."
"My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing."
"To play with ten players for over half of the match is never going to be easy against anybody, particularly on their home field. But I thought the team adjusted fairly well and at times we looked really good with only ten players. Still, it's a win, and it's a win for the Rivalry Series and I'm happy about that."
"It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top."
"Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance."
"Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone."
"Win for yourself that which your fathers have won."
"I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Viet-Nam, against the Communists."
